AL.create and AL.destroy nonexistant (beginner question)

I started to look at openAL for sound handling in my game. it may sound wierd, but AL.create() and AL.destroy() dont exist in the class AL, apparently! and all of the tutorials i tried code from, used those functions. i tried both nightly and stable builds, but nothing works and im feeling stupid. is the official tutorial in the lwjgl site outdated??